Rumor on the street is that Microchip have some new Cortex chips up their sleeve, a Cortex M4 series named PIC32CX and Cortex M7 series named PIC32CZ. Presumably they derive from Atmel SAM products. Anyone got any more info?

Rumor on the street is that Microchip have some new Cortex chips up their sleeve, a Cortex M4 series named PIC32CX and Cortex M7 series named PIC32CZ. Presumably they derive from Atmel SAM products. Anyone got any more info?

Rebranding ?

Given PIC32 has always label MIPS cores, that's going to cause some confusion in the market place, but maybe that is the intention ?

Microchip has always tried to elevate 'PIC' above the core, and it seems here you run all the way along the string PIC32, to find the next letter is a M for MIPS and C for Cortex ?

Code is not going to be nearly as portable as the brand name 'suggests', but caveat emptor always applies I guess.

"I don't need any more than an 8bit AVR. I don't need ARM, I don't need 32bits, I don't need 120MHz, I don't need floating point, and I don't even need all those fancy peripherals! I'll be fine with my ATmega2560!"

"The 100pin ATSAMD51N19A is less than half of the price of the ATmega2560..."

"I don't need any more than an 8bit AVR. I don't need ARM, I don't need 32bits, I don't need 120MHz, I don't need floating point, and I don't even need all those fancy peripherals! I'll be fine with my ATmega2560!"

"The 100pin ATSAMD51N19A is less than half of the price of the ATmega2560..."

Imagination is selling its MIPS business unit as a condition for the deal with Canyon Bridge, ...

MIPS processors are mostly used in embedded computing.

Imagination said on Friday that the American investment firm Tallwood Venture Capital would pay $65 million for the MIPS business, which is based in the United States. The MIPS architecture is used, for example, in Mediatek’s smartphone modems and Mobileye’s image processors for semi-autonomous cars.

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In May, the company said that it would stay afloat by selling its Ensigma and MIPS units. In June – after its stock price had plunged – Imagination said that everything had to go.

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“We are investing in U.K. talent and expertise in order to accelerate the expansion of Imagination, particularly into Asia.” - Ray Bingham, Canyon Bridge co-founder

The MEC17XX family is based on an ARM® Cortex®-M4F core and has advanced hardware-accelerated cryptography algorithms to efficiently support the secure boot of a computer [PC].

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In addition, Microchip’s popular MIPS-based MEC14XX family has been expanded to include functionality for supporting the new eSPI Slave Attached Flash (SAF) feature, which allows the Microchip embedded controller to be directly connected to an SPI Flash memory using an on-board master controller.